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FALL (current):
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING (current):
• Classical
• Greek
• Latin
COURSES - FALL 2009
GRADUATE COURSES
All graduate courses meet in Classics, East Pyne 161 - Seminar Room unless otherwise noted.
| CLA500 - Greek Prose Composition |
| An in-depth study of greek and grammar and style based on weekly prose composition exercises. |
| Professor Christian Wildberg |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50 am - Th |
| CLA503 - Survey of Selected Latin Literature: Roman Literary History |
| An introduction to the major genres of Latin Literature, and to the main scholarly issues involved in their study. Also offers intensive practice in reading Latin. Two 1/2 hour meetings per week. |
| Professor Yelena Baraz |
| Seminar: 11:00-12:20 pm - MW |
| CLA506 - Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus' Oresteia |
| Our aims: a close reading of the Oresteia, the one surviving triology, so as to navigate the shoals of Aeschylean language, style imagery, dramatic technique, performative values, & ideation. Also consideration of the work's status in the social, ideological, and theatrical contexts of 5th-century Athens. Topics include mythic & ritual elements; development of law & legal resolutions to familial & political violence; mangement of generational & gendered differences, and the historical circumstances of a democratic city at the time of its greatest optimism. Attention to secondary literature, especially to the range of recent interpretations. |
| Professor
Froma I. Zeitlin |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20pm M |
| CLA536/COM530 - Ovid: Metamorphoses |
| The course offers a chance to read Ovid's Metamorphoses in its entirety and an introduction to recent critical approaches to the work. It is designed also to be accessible to graduate students in other humanities departments provided they have some Latin |
| Professor Andrew M. Feldherr |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20pm W |
| CLA546 - Problems in Roman History: Religion and Magic in Ancient Rome |
| This seminar will investigate the varieties of religious experience (domestic, civic, local, imported) at Rome during the Republic and Early Empire. Particular attention will be paid to the range of extant ancient sources (literary, material, epigraphical) and to recent models and interpretations of Roman religion(s) by modern scholars. Religious rituals and power will be studied in relation to complementary and contrasting spheres, especially magic and other occult experiences. Continuity and change in Roman religion will be examined in the context of political and cultural change. |
| Professor Harriet I. Flower |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50 T |
| CLA547/PAW501/HLS501 - Problems in Ancient History: Center and Region in the Ancient Mediterranean |
| The seminar will investigate the interaction of urban centers and surrounding territories in selected areas of the ancient Mediterranean. Attention will be concentrated on pre-Roman Sicily and Roman and pre-Roman North Africa. We will look at economic and cultural relations within these regions, and at the ways in which political and ethnic structures conditioned these connections. |
| Professor
Nino Luraghi Professor Brent D. Shaw |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20pm T |
| CLA599 - Dissertation Writers' Seminar |
| A practical and theoretical introduction to scholarly writing at the dissertation level and beyond. This seminar is normally required of all post-generals students and will provide information and guidance on the proposal and dissertation writing process; the seminar will meet every two or three weeks throughout the year, providing a forum for dissertators to circulate work in progress for feedback, and to discuss issues that arise in their work. |
| Professor Christian Wildberg |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50am F |
Updated May 13, 2009 11:31 am by Stephanie